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# Add a Change Event in a New Channel Member

To add a change event to the channel that you created, add a channel member.

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Prerequisites:

- [Create a Channel for a Change Event](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.ev_relay_create_channel_cdc.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Create a channel that holds a stream of change data capture events.")

Change events are predefined by Salesforce so you don’t define them. To learn about Salesforce objects that support change events, see [Change Event Object Support](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.change_data_capture.meta/change_data_capture/cdc_object_support.htm) in the Change Data Capture Developer Guide.

1. Send a POST request to this URI.
    
    ```
    /services/data/v65.0/tooling/sobjects/PlatformEventChannelMember
    ```
2. If you’re using Postman, expand **Event Platform** | **Custom Channels** | **Platform Event**, and click **Create channel member**.
3. Specify the channel in the `eventChannel` field and the event in the `selectedEntity` field. This example references a change event, `AccountChangeEvent`. Use this example request body. In Postman, click **Body**, and replace the body with this JSON body.
    
    ```
    {
      "FullName": "Account_Channel_chn_AccountChangeEvent",
      "Metadata": {
        "eventChannel": "Account_Channel__chn",
        "selectedEntity": "AccountChangeEvent"
      }
    }
    ```
4. Send the request. The response received looks similar to this response.
    
    ```
    {
      "id": "0v8RM0000000GHCYA2",
      "success": true,
      "errors": [],
      "warnings": [],
      "infos": []
    }
    ```

A channel (PlatformEventChannel) can have multiple channel members (PlatformEventChannelMember), which means that you can add multiple change events to a channel. This example adds only one change event, `AccountChangeEvent`. To add another event to the channel, create another PlatformEventChannelMember.

#### See Also

- [_Tooling API Developer Guide_: PlatformEventChannelMember](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_tooling.meta/api_tooling/tooling_api_objects_platformeventchannelmember.htm)
- [_Metadata API Developer Guide_: PlatformEventChannelMember](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_meta.meta/api_meta/meta_platformeventchannelmember.htm)